DEFIANCE, a city of north-western Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Auglaize and the Tiffin rivers with the Maumee: the county seat of Defiance county. It is on Federal highway 24 and several State roads, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Wabash railways. The population was 8,876 in 1920 (94% native white) and was 8,818 in 193o by the Federal census. It is the central market of the Maumee valley, a rich dairying and farming region. Dairy products, steel barrels and drums, automo bile bodies and trucks, cotton gloves and mittens, metal and can vas specialties are some of its leading manufactures. It is the seat of Defiance college (Christian), established as a normal school in 1884. The confluence of the rivers was a favourite meeting place of the Indians. In 1794 Gen. Anthony Wayne built a fort (which he named Defiance) on a spot now included in a public park. A second fort (Winchester) was established here by Gen. Harrison during the war of 1812. The town was incorporated in 1822. It developed commercially after the opening of the Miami and Erie canal (1845), was made the county seat in that year, and became a city in 1881.